List of Northeastern University people

Business

Nikesh Arora – chairman and chief executive officer of Palo Alto Networks
Jeff Bornstein – CFO, General Electric
Robert A. Brooks – founder and CEO, Brooks Fiber Properties^[1]
George Chamillard – former CEO, Teradyne, Inc.
Jeff Clarke – Former CEO of Kodak
Jeff Cooper – COO and co-founder, EPOX-Z Corporation
Bob Davis – CEO and founder, Lycos
Richard Egan – co-founder, EMC
Shawn Fanning – founder, Napster
Jerald G. Fishman – CEO, Analog Devices
George Kariotis – founder, Alpha Industries
Amin Khoury – founder and CEO, B/E Aerospace
Andrew Left – activist short seller
Roger Marino – co-founder of EMC; former part-owner of Pittsburgh Penguins^[2]
Alan McKim – CEO and founder, Clean Harbors
Larry Meyer – CEO, Uniqlo USA
Srinath Narayanan – principal, Canaccord Adams
Marc Raibert – founder and CEO, Boston Dynamics
Jeffrey Rosen – billionaire businessman
Peter W. Smith – investment banker, Republican activist
Sy Sternberg – chairman and former CEO, New York Life Insurance Company
Biz Stone – co-founder of Twitter

Government and politics

Jayson P. Ahern – deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Olubanke King Akerele – Liberian foreign minister
George F. Archambault – Pharmacy Liaison Officer for the United States Public Health Service
Demetrius J. Atsalis – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1999–2013)
Thomas Calter – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (2007–2018)
Christie Carpino – member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
David Chu – member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1997–2004) and the 9th and 10th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China^[3]
Cheryl A. Coakley-Rivera – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1999–2014)
Mo Cowan – U.S. senator of Massachusetts
Harold Daniel Donohue – member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1947–1974)
Robert DeLeo - former speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (2009-2020)
Patrick Duddy – U.S. ambassador
Richard Egan – U.S. ambassador
David Ferriero – 10th archivist of the United States
Thomas Finneran – former speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1996–2004)
Zandra Flemister – first African American woman to serve as a U.S. Secret Service agent
Joseph J. Seymour – Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (1974–1978)
Gordon D. Fox – Majority Leader of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (2010–2014)
Peter Franchot – Comptroller of Maryland
Maggie Hassan – Governor of New Hampshire (20132017) and the current junior United States senator from New Hampshire
Maura Healey – Governor of Massachusetts (2023–present) and Massachusetts Attorney General (2015–2023)
Russell Holmes – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (2011–present)
Roderick L. Ireland – Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice
Edward Jackamonis – speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
James Franklin Jeffrey – U.S. ambassador
Lyndon LaRouche – perennial presidential candidate
Hadassah Lieberman – wife of Connecticut senator Joseph Lieberman
Ron Mariano - Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Adnan Aurangzeb Miangul – former Pakistani parliament member and Prince of Swat, Pakistan
Paul Parks – Massachusetts secretary of education (1975–1979)
John O. Pastore – governor of Rhode Island
Ari Porth – member of the Florida House of Representatives
Larry Ross – member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
Theodore Speliotis – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives^[4]
Karen Spilka – member of the Massachusetts State Senate
Wallace Stickney – director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President George H. W. Bush
Thomas Winkowski – former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Leslie Winner – North Carolina state senator
Maynard L. Young Jr. – member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives

Judiciary

Margot Botsford – Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Linda Dalianis – Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
Dana Fabe – Chief Justice, Alaska Supreme Court
Edward Hennessey – Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Peter T. Zarella – Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
Victoria A. Roberts - Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Landya B. McCafferty - Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Science and technology

Hans Baumann – inventor and engineer
Hans R. Camenzind – inventor of the 555 timer IC
Richard P. Gabriel – expert on the Lisp programming language
Gregory Jarvis – astronaut
Eugene F. Lally – aerospace engineer, photographer, entrepreneur
Yale Patt – engineer
Albert Sacco – astronaut

Military

Mark P. Fitzgerald – United States Navy Admiral
Richard I. Neal – United States Marine Corps General

Journalism and communications

Ernie Anastos – New York City TV news anchorman
Eddie Andelman – sports radio talk show host (MBA)
Bill Barnwell – sportswriter, ESPN, Grantland
Michelle Bonner – ESPN/CNN/FOX Sports anchor, reporter
Fred Cusick – sportscaster
Richard Daniels – former president, Boston Globe
Nat Hentoff – contributing editor, The New Yorker Magazine
Will McDonough – sportswriter, Boston Globe
Don Orsillo – TV broadcaster
Walter V. Robinson – investigative journalist, 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service recipient
Michael Slackman – International Managing Editor, The New York Times
Molly White – technology writer and Wikipedia editor^[5]

Arts and entertainment

Al Barile – singer, guitarist for hardcore punk band SS Decontrol
Earle Brown – composer, developed open-form scores
Joy Browne – radio talk show host
Jose F. Buscaglia – philosopher, historian, social scientist
Terry Carter – actor, Sgt. Joe Broadhurst in McCloud and Colonel Tigh in the original Battlestar Galactica
Carla Cook – Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist
Jane Curtin – actress, comedian, and founding member of Saturday Night Live
Michael J. Epstein – filmmaker and musician
Martín Espada – poet
Damien Fahey – former host of the MTV program TRL
Toby Fox – game designer and developer of Undertale and Deltarune
Alex Garcia – Food Network chef
Meredith Garniss – visual artist and landscape painter
Elliot Grainge – CEO of Atlantic Records
Sidney Gish – singer/songwriter^[6]
Alan Catello Grazioso – Emmy Award winning television producer, director and editor^[7]^[8]
Mohammed Saeed Harib – creator of Freej^[9]
Courtney Hunt – writer and director, whose film Frozen River was nominated for an Academy Award
Beverly Johnson – supermodel and actress
Aisha Kahlil – dancer, singer
Barbara Kopple – documentary filmmaker
Diana Lemieux – freelance photographer
Patrice O'Neal – comedian and actor
Peter Orner – fiction writer
Jillian Wheeler – singer/songwriter
Wendy Williams – radio and television, host of The Wendy Williams Show